humanity
The real lives of businessmen, professionals, the everyday man, stay at home parent, healthy lifestyle influencers, and general feel good human stories.
When Is It Time to Intervene
John Stuart Mill once said “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing”. A statement based on truth and fact, as a species that lives in a society where many people consciously make the choice to not help when others need it, and instead act on self preservation. As a society, as a species we must instead choose to intervene and help, protect one another as a collective unit, and do everything in our power to help no matter the situation; whether it's based on instinct, religion and cultural normalities, or out of compassion.
By Thomas Tome4 years ago in Journal
5 Things That Truly Happy People Never Do
Happiness is not one of these things you can put off until later. It’s something you have to create in the present if you want to be completely satisfied in the future. We often sense that we have to do many matters to be certainly happy. But some comfortable humans have realized that we frequently don’t have to do certain things if we favor being truly happy.
By Cosmin Child4 years ago in Journal
What does the personal savings allowance mean in terms of cash ISAs and other tax-free savings vehicles?
The interest you earn on a cash Individual Savings Account (ISA) is tax-free. ISA earnings do not count toward the PSA. There are also a number of Treasury-backed NS&I products that are tax-free, such as fixed interest and index-linked National Savings Certificates and Premium Bonds. Income or awards from these goods are also not counted against the PSA.
By cheap accountant4 years ago in Journal
Thoughts on Goodhart’s Law
Goodhart’s Law can be stated in a number of different ways; any measure which becomes a target ceases to be a good measure, when a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure, any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes (this was Goodhart’s original formulation), entities who are aware of a system of rewards and punishments will optimize their actions within said system to achieve their desired results, a policy with a purpose that can be/is measured can be manipulated once that purpose is known (my own formulation), and many others. On the face of it they all appear to state something that had been known to quantum physics since well before Goodhart published his first paper on the topic in 1975, which is that observation/measurement of a (quantum) thing necessarily changes that thing (the observer effect which stems from Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle). The "statistical regularity" which is the focus of Goodhart's law is said to "collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes." i.e. once it is observed/measured. This seems analogous to the way in which the wave function of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle collapses upon observation/measurement.
By Everyday Junglist4 years ago in Journal
Why I'm Not "Going Home" For the Holidays
Roughly a year and a half ago, my husband and I moved from small-town Minnesota to Salt Lake City, UT with our 1 year old, a trailer at least 40% full of Star Wars memorabilia, and the fresh optimism that only two newlyweds facing a beautiful mountain range can possess.
By Camilla Richter4 years ago in Journal
20 Simple Ways to Increase Productivity
Every successful businessperson promises you their secret "productivity strategies." . Of course, there are certain basic productivity methods you can use, like as taking small breaks, making good to-do lists, and rejecting social media.
By Munnazir Zarin4 years ago in Journal
